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Famous Abysms Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Abysms poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous abysms poems. These examples illustrate what a famous abysms poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Whitman, Walt
...tender and pensive waves,
(Not safe and peaceful only—waves rous’d and ominous too. 
Out of the depths, the storm’s abysms—Who knows whence? Death’s waves, 
Raging over the vast, with many a broken spar and tatter’d sail.)...Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...known, really shape and mould the New World,
 adjusting
 it to Time and Space, 
You hidden National Will, lying in your abysms, conceal’d, but ever alert,
You past and present purposes, tenaciously pursued, may-be unconscious of
 yourselves, 
Unswerv’d by all the passing errors, perturbations of the surface; 
You vital, universal, deathless germs, beneath all creeds, arts, statutes,
 literatures,

Here build your homes for good—establish here—These areas entire, Lands of the ...Read more of this...

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